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Byers explains that an Accuracy Systemsproduct was apparently used to destroy Arrow Air Charter DC 8 flight MF 1285R, immediately after it took off from Gander in Canada in December 1985.

Byers writes that his firm 'designed and manufactured the responsible device exclusively for, and sold it only to, the Central Intelligence Agency'.

Byers' sources have told him that a US special operations unit, possibly under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, had been supposed to detonate a small nuclear backpack bomb in Iraq and make it look like an Iraqi nuclear accident.

This special operations unit had discovered that they would not have the chance to outrun the blast and would be killed. They decided to return to the USA rather than carry out their mission.

Byers claims that the special operations unit, with their nuclear backpack bomb, boarded the Arrow Air Charter DC 8 flight MF 1285R at the last minute in Cairo.

According to Byers, orders were given by U S Government personnel that this plane be destroyed before it reached the United States of America. According to Byers, a bomb was planted during a stop at Gander and remotely detonated shortly after the landing gear retracted upon takeoff.

Byers writes that, 'within hours of the crash, U S Army General John Crosby arrived with a Broken Arrow Nuclear Disaster Team, and, without conducting any normal investigation, ordered the area bulldozed over with 6 feet of soil.'

The crash of Arrow Air Charter DC 8 flight MF 1285R was the worst military aviation disaster in history, killing all 248 passengers, members of the 101st Airborne, plus 8 crew.

At The Scotsman newspaper, "readers' letters swung decisively through the week in favour of MacAskill’s decision to release, while our online poll went from a very narrow majority opposing his decision to 57 per cent in favour by yesterday afternoon." - The Lockerbie Case

"As in the Lockerbie case a piece of circuit board was found in the wreckage of UTA 772, which was identified, proved to be a crucial piece of evidence particularly against Colonel Abdessalam Isa Shibani.

"The date of the discovery of the fragment is not known.

"The investigating magistrate was made aware on its discovery on the 15th October 1991.

"The fragment bore no trace of explosive residue.

"The help of the FBI was sought in tracing the origin of this fragment.

"(It is understood that Thomas Thurman played a role in identifying this fragment.)"

Tim Gatto, in the Atlantic Free Press on 15 January 2009, wrote that the US government invented "a huge group of militant Muslims operating in 87 countries that was led by Osama Bin Laden. The name of this Washington invention was called al Qaeda."

Former UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that Al Qaeda is a database of militias and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis.

Reportedly, the CIA's Al Qaeda blackmails the Gulf States.

Reportedly the CIA's Al Qaeda has extorted protection money from the governments of the Gulf.

There were links between the CIA death squads and (A) people within the party of General Musharraf (B) Japanese yakuza linked to the Liberal Democratic Party (C) Golden Triangle warlords in Burma and (D) Colombian paramilitaries linked to the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

15. Former CIA Executive Director Alvin 'Buzzy' Krongard is reported to have helped form the relationship with Blackwater USA to carry out assassinations for the CIA.

Did The Herald insist on great accuracy in the questioning of the public?

Allegedly, a polling organisation can get the result its masters want simply by:

1. phrasing its questions in a particular way

2. mainly asking the sort of people who will give the required answers.

For example, a poll might ask:

In view of the Scottish National Party's sympathy for terrorists, and in view of the fact that Scotland's oil has almost run out, do you expect the Scottish Nationalists to win in the Glenrothes election?

The pollsters might then question 400 people living in Scotland who have English sounding names and who have incomes over £50,000 a year.

The pollsters then announce that the SNP can be expected to lose the Glenrothes election.

Ulrich Lumpert a Swiss engineer who was "a crucial witness" has now confessed that he lied about the origins of a timer switch.Recently, Lumpert gave a sworn declaration to a Swiss court, which read "I stole a prototype MST-13 timing device" and "gave it without permission on June 22, 1989 to a person who was officially investigating the Lockerbie affair". - From Gulf News, 4 September 2007

What was found at Lockerbie?

According to historian Lisa Pease: "Drugs. Heroin, to be exact.

"Additionally, locals were perturbed by the immediate presence of large numbers of Americans who showed up in Lockerbie within a couple of hours of the downing of the plane...

"Among the victims was ... U.S. Army Major Charles McKee, a Defense Intelligence Agency employee who had been assigned temporarily to the CIA.

"McKee had been accompanied by four others that were later identified as CIA men: Matthew Gannon, the CIA’s Beirut Deputy Station Chief; Ronald Larivier, Daniel O’Connor, and Bill Leyrer..."

In Frankfurt, "during the loading of bags, a BKA (German federal police) agent noticed a bag that looked different than the usual drug bags.

"Since he was on alert for a potential bomb, he notified CIA-1 (a CIA team), which again passed that information to its control.

"The report said CIA-1 gave no instructions to BKA, and BKA did nothing to stop the bag.

"In one of its most startling allegations, the report said, 'The BKA was then covertly videotaping that area on that day. A videotape was made. It shows the perpetrator in the act. It was held by BKA. A copy was made and given to CIA-1. The BKA tape has been ‘lost.’ However, the copy exists at CIA-1 control in the U.S'..."

In 1990, ABC and NBC did reports on a drug ring link to the bombing.

"Time magazine ... stated ... that McKee was heading back to Washington to expose the CIA unit’s operations with the drug dealers."

The London government apparently wanted Megrahi released.

The Cabinet Office has released papers which show that Lord Jones, a trade minister, visited Tripoli in May 2008.

In November 2008 Dawn Primarolo, a health minister, held talks with the Libyan prime minister and the Secretary of the General People’s Committee.

"Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy’s have profited in the tens of millions through the oil industry.

"Kennedy ... owns two oil companies." (Political Corruption 1: Ted Kennedy.)Ted Kennedy, during a European vacation, was photographed having sexual intercourse in a motorboat.Alabama senator Howell Heflin joked he was glad to see Kennedy had "changed his position on offshore drilling."(highly publicised debauchery)In 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was arrested for heroin possession. In 1984, Robert Kennedy's sons, David, died of a drug overdose. Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick, went into rehab in 1986, followed, in 1991, by his brother Ted Jr.

The USA could be considered to be a country of rich clever 'crooks', and poor dumb serfs.

"In expressing his full support of the Scottish judicial system, Mr MacAskill implicitly accepted that the decision was correct and that Megrahi was, indeed, guilty of the appalling crime.

"Many in Scotland and beyond are not convinced this is correct...

"The detailed report of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission identified no fewer than six grounds on which the Camp Zeist verdict might be unsafe, including US bribery of the principal identification witness, doubts about the source of the timer device...

Lockerbie is in Dumfries and Galloway which has had strong links to the drugs trade since the 19th century. There are large mansions in Dumfries and Galloway which were built by people linked to 'the China trade'.

William Jardine (1784-1843) was born, near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, not so far from Lockerbie. Jardine, together with James Matheson, went into the opium business in China.

Jardine helped to start the First Opium War. Britain was smuggling opium from India into China, and when China tried to stop this, there was war. China was defeated and forced to allow the opium trade.

Some top Scots still seem to have links to people allegedly involved in the drugs trade?

'Police have found cannabis resin in the home of the British Defence Secretary, John Reid, but the minister says he has no idea where it came from.' - Sunday Mail 30 April 2006

According to the Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 9/4/2005:

'GRIM-FACED Defence Secretary John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding yesterday - with a villain wanted by police. Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.' Reportedly, Campbell's name has been linked to drugs.

"THE CIA is alleged to have set up a protected drug route from Europe to the United States - called Operation Corea - which allowed Syrian drug dealers to ship heroin to the US using Pan Am flights... The American intelligence officers on Pan Am 103 - Matthew Gannon and Major Charles McKee - had found out about it, and were on their way to Washington to tell their superiors... Aviv was never interviewed by either the Scottish police or the FBI."

Reportedly, a number of important people were warned not to fly on the PanAm 103 flight which came down over Lockerbie.

According to The Scotsman ( Http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=1014782007 )"A 23-strong South African delegation, headed by foreign minister, Pik Botha, cancelled a booking on the flight at short notice. There was also a last-minute change of travel plan by the UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson."

"Washington knew enough to put up notices in its Moscow embassy warning personnel not to travel on Pan Am flights, to withdraw the South African general staff - Generals Van Tonder and Malan, Rusty Evans and Pik Botha - and advise personnel from the American army of the Rhine not to travel..."

Presumably, the CIA did not warn Major Charles McKee.

The CIA seemed to know approximately when and where PanAm Flight 103 was going to come down.

'Within an hour of Pan Am 103 crashing on Lockerbie, on a point of order, I interrupted House of Commons routine business to ask for a statement. Simultaneously, by helicopter, American personnel were arriving on the scene, and were soon to take over..."

The Scottish business, legal and political establishment is at risk of corruption by criminal godfathers who crave power and influence as much as wealth, a top crime-fighter has warned.The Herald : News: HEADLINE NEWS

John Heidenry’s book "Theirs Was The Kingdom" relates that Reader's digest has been used as a tool of the CIA since 1948.

According to "Unreliable Sources: A Guide To Detecting Bias In News Media" by Martin Lee and Norman Solomon, "It was rather convenient that people like…Eugene Lyons of Reader’s Digest sat on the board of directors of the National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE), which functioned as a thinly-veiled private-section cover for channeling funds to neo-Nazi émigré groups…" and "other NCFE board members included CIA director Allen Dulles…"

On 17 August 2009, the Reader’s Digest Association, the publisher of the Reader's Digest, said it would seek bankruptcy protection.

It needs to restructure $2.2 billion in debt.

In the 1970s the Digest sold as many as 18m copies a month.

Circulation now stands at 8.2m in America.

The National Geographic appears to have become the mouthpiece of the CIA?

The National Geographic's video on Lockerbie fails to tell us that the Lockerbie 'timer' may have been planted, and that Major Charles McKee reportedly wanted to blow the whistle on Operation Corea.

Just before 9 11, the National geographic was preparing maps and an article on Afghanistan.

If you want to know which countries the Pentagon is about to invade, look at the National Geographic.

The edition of the magazine, dated November 2004, has an article on the Geography of Terror.

The article, written by Walter Laqueur who recently retired from the Kissinger Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, seems full of obvious disinformation.

The article refers to a number of countries:

Ireland – the article fails to mention US financing of terror groups, and the allegation that most of the worst incidents were the work of the UK security services.

Europe – the article fails to mention the CIA links to the terror which hit Italy in the 1980s.

Remember the bombs in railway stations that ‘were the work of fascist groups with CIA connections’.

Indonesia – the article fails to mention (1) the CIA terror used to topple President Sukarno and then President Suharto (2) the US training of the generals who have been associated with terror in East Timor, the Spice Islands and elsewhere (3) the links between the US trained Indonesian military and ‘Moslem’ terror groups such as Laskar Jihad (4) the alleged involvement of the Indonesian military in the Bali bomb.

Palestine – the article does not make it clear that (1) the Palestinians were driven from their land by Jewish terrorist groups (2) the Israelis initially aided Hamas in order to weaken Arafat (3) the USA supports Israel in its occupation of Palestinian land and defiance of UN resolutions and in its possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq – the article fails to mention the body of evidence that Saddam was a CIA agent and was put into power by the USA.

Al Qaeda – the article promotes the myth of al Qaeda. It fails to mention (1) the bin Laden links to the Bush family (2) bin Laden’s Jewish mother (3) bin Laden’s death in December 2001 (4) the controlled explosions that brought down the Twin Towers on 9 11 (5) the training of the alleged hijackers at US military bases.

Malcolm Chisholm, a former Labour minister said: "Can I regret the politicisation of what is a quasi-judicial decision, and for my part commend the Justice Secretary for a courageous decision, which is entirely consistent with both the principles of Scots Law and Christian morality, as evidenced by the widespread support of churches across Scotland."

Malcolm Chisholm is not a quisling.

According to Michael Matheson, a member of the Scottish parliament: "With Scotland’s churches, civic society, senior former and current politicians and many Scots around the country agreeing with this decision and the values embodied in it it is clear that support for Mr MacAskill is growing as Scots and others around the world understand the decision and the reasons for it."

Michael Matheson is not a quisling.

Liberal Democrat MSP John Farquhar Munro supported Mr MacAskill’s decision. "Mr MacAskill had no other choice but the one he made," said Munro.

John Farquhar Munro is not a quisling.

Former Labour first minister Henry McLeish gave his backing to the decision to release Megrahi.

Henry McLeish is not a quisling.

Former presiding officer and Liberal leader Lord David Steel said of Megrahi: "I think most opinion in Scotland is in favour of the decision to release him on compassionate grounds."

David Steel is not a quisling.

Both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland issued statements to say MacAskill had done the right thing in releasing Megrahi.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Children preparing for evacuation from Spain, some giving the Republican salute. It was donated to Wikipedia Commons by the estate of Olga Brocca Smith.

"Details ... have begun to enter the public domain. They make devastating reading. They include deliberately undisclosed evidence at the original trial; alleged tampering with evidence and payment of a £2m bribe to a key witness." - In time Megrahi will be granted a posthumous Royal pardon

"Perhaps the Americans should be reminded of the case of Second Lieutenant William Calley, who was involved in the murder of at least 350 unarmed women, children and elderly people at My Lai in 1968.

Martin Gilbert, the chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, has joined forces with Edinburgh financier Ben Thomson and property developer Mark Shaw to acquire the Scotsman newspaper from the debt-laden Johnston Press. The Johnson press is in discussions with Newsquest, publisher of rival The Herald, about a joint venture. - Bid to buy The Scotsman from troubled owner

But if you look for this story on Google news, you may find it is given little prominence.

And many blogs will ignore this story.

Many Americans refuse to face the reality of Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio.

6.Lockerbie is linked to 9 11

22 January 1963, Mexico City, at "La Reforma" nightclub. Shown, clockwise from front left, are alleged to be: David Sanchez Morales, Porter Goss (arm around Morales), Barry Seal, Guillermo Novo Sampol, Ignacio Novo Sampol; Carlos Alberto de Diego Aday, Richard Cain (unconfirmed), Arsenio Felipe de Diego Aday, Tosh Plumlee and Virgilio Gonzalez.A reader adds this correction: "The fellow w/ moustache in the front right is William Houston Seymour, an Oswald look-alike; next to him, hiding his face, is Frank Sturgis, one of the hobos caught in a train yard not far from the Grassy Knoll, and one of the Watergate burglars.The man in the front left 'is Felix Rodriguez, one of the CIA's most vicious assassins, whose long list of murders includes that of Che Guevara in Bolivia...'"

Reportedly, it was Mossad that suggested that the CIA, with the help of Monzer al Kassar, could smuggle heroin from Lebanon into the USA.

Reportedly, al Kassar would have known about Mohamed Atta 'flying Lebanese heroin into Florida for Porter Goss's 911 operation'.

Reportedly, tied to Porter Goss' 911 training operation in Florida were the Muslim Brotherhood, and agents of the intelligence agencies of Saudi Arabia, Germany, Syria and Pakistan.

Kassar, who may have been a CIA asset, and whose name is linked to Lockerbie.

On 20 November 2008, Monzer Al Kassar, following a three-week jury trial in Manhattan federal court, was found guilty of:

conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals, conspiracy to murder U.S. officers and employees, conspiracy to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and money laundering. (International Arms Dealer and Cohort Convicted on Terrorism Offenses)

Reportedly, since the early 1970s, Al Kassar was a source of weapons and military equipment for groups engaged in violent conflicts around the world.

Some of those groups included the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF).

Reportedly, Al Kassar developed an international network of criminal associates, as well as front companies and bank accounts in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania.

Photo of Kassar

Monzer al-Kassar, born in Syria in 1945, is known as the "Prince of Marbella."

Kassar is married to a sister of Ali Issa Dubah, a former chief of Syrian intelligence, and a close associate of Rifat Assad, the brother of Syria's former President Hafez Assad.

Reportedly Al-Kassar 'was part of the secret network run by US Lt. Colonel Oliver North.'

Outraged that COREA was doing business with a Syrian 'who made money from drugs, arms and terrorism', the McKee team reportedly 'decided to fly to CIA HQ in Virginia to expose COREA'.

They flew on Pan Am flight 103 which came down over Lockerbie.

It has been alleged that Kassar has received regular CIA money deposited to his credit at the Katherein Bank, Vienna (A/c No. 50307495) and at the Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva (A/c No. 510230C-86). ('Confession of an Iranian Terror Czar')

In 1992, al-Kassar made arms sales in the millions of dollars to Croatia, Bosnia and Somalia, violating United Nations arms embargoes to all three countries.

According to the US Drugs Enforcement Agency, Al-Kassar once imported 20 % of the heroin that came into the United States. (FTR-109 Monzer Al-Kassar & Co)

In 1992, the Spanish government arrested Kassar for his alleged involvement in the Achille Lauro hijacking. In 1995, and he was found not guilty on all charges.

In July 2006, the government of Iraq placed Kassar at number 26 on their "most wanted" list, calling him one of the main suppliers for the Iraqi insurgents.

On 8 June 2007, the DEA (US Drug Enforcement Administration) announced the arrest in Spain of Monzer al Kassar. This was said to be linked to arms sales to rebels in Colombia.

Kassar was arrested just days before the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was granted a second extraordinary appeal and 'just days after Blair went to Tripoli to negotiate a deal that would save him the embarrassment of a fresh appeal.' ('Confession of an Iranian Terror Czar')